Hello crafty friends! I am popping in today to show you my latest card. It is for my Mum's birthday. I couldn't even find the inspiration for that. I have to admit to cheating . . . badly. You might recognise this one. It is a card that I had made previously and had in my stash, which I cut the front off and mounted it to a larger card base on which I embossed with a stencil, colouring the paste to the colours used on the card. I sprinkled the paste with iridescent glitter before it was dry.
In the meantime, whilst my mojo has deserted me, I am doing some sewing (that doesn't require any creative input).
Above is a dress that I made by attaching a piece of plain black fabric - that I gathered - to a sleeveless top that I made a little while ago. The piece hanging around the neck of the hanger is a 'self belt', made from the same fabric as the top.
Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment. You are all appreciated more than you know!
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Right . . . I managed to get card number two finished, just before the last of the daylight disappeared! I had chosen to try Jocelyn Olson's 'Embossing Paste' technique, which calls for two layers of embossing, one on top of the other, with two different stencils.
First, I added a bit of watercolour to both corners of the card using cheap watercolours and had to let that dry. Next, I took the Simon Says Stamp, 'Dots and Lines' stencil and embossed the first layer onto the background, then had to let that dry.
Once dry, I took the Hero Arts, 'Leaf and Flourish' stencil and just embossed part of the design in each coloured corner and, you guessed it, had to leave that to dry . . . are you beginning to see, why I had to post these separately and nearly lost the light?
Once that was dry, I cut two leaf stems (sorry, can't remember who they are by) out of vellum and stuck one in each corner.
I finished the whole thing off with another My Favorite Things, 'Happy' die and the Altenew, Label Love, stamp set - only using the birthday part this time - finishing with a sprinkle of sequins.
Thank you again for taking the time to stop by and for leaving messages, I appreciate you all and try to reciprocate where possible. Have a great evening/ day. Hazel xx
Today I made another card for the terrific challenge site, Freshly Made Sketches and their challenge #161 A lot of techniques were used this time, but although that was the case, I still tried to keep it fairly CAS . . . I hope I succeeded?
Anyway, if you like trying techniques, stay tuned and I will list them. Here is the card.
Sorry about the picture quality, but it is a poor day for lighting today . . . it is winter I suppose!
And this was the sketch
Right, here we go,
First, I used a stencil on the base card - all supplies used will be listed below - and sprinkled sparkle embossing powder over the snowflakes and left the whole thing to dry. When it was completely dry, I then heat embossed the sparkle embossing powder (I didn't want the embossing paste to bubble which is why I let it dry first)
Next, I die cut an aperture at the top of the card, as I wanted to do some die cut inlaying, and then cut the inlay piece out of white card. I also die cut six snowflakes and stacked them one on top of the other.
Then I heat embossed the sentiment with silver detail embossing powder and embossed the snowflake using one of the dies.
Finally, I put it all together and added a few tiny snowflakes to fill a couple of gaps that seemed to be 'missing something' (try to imagine the card without and I think you will probably agree?), maybe not, maybe it's just me!
Anyway, thanks for stopping by and if you have read this far, I truly appreciate it . . . and all of your comments!
Bye for now, have a crafty day!
Hazel xx
Supplies used:
Stencil - Memory Box 'Tiny Snowflakes'
Stamp - Kaiser Craft 'Magic Of Christmas'
Embossing Powder - WOW 'Silver Detail Powder'
Dies - Spellbinders 'Snowflake Pendant Set'
As the title suggests, this ccard was made for the 'CAS(E) This Sketch #95' challenge.
Materials used:
Homemade stencil
Stampin' Up - Show & Tell 2 stamp set & Sparkling Diamonds glitter
Clearly Besotted - Many Messages
WOW - Silver embossing powder
Dreamweaver - Silver embossing paste
I think I just scraped under the deadline wire for this one!
